Central Trade unions’ staged rally protesting fulfillment of their 10-point charter demand

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Bhubaneswar: The State units of various unions here held a huge rally and demonstration on Wednesday acting on the call of the central trade unions (CTU),  protesting the Group of Ministers’ (GoM) appeal for taking more time to discuss and settle of 10-point charter of demands of all central trade unions in the country.

Protestors of BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC and AICCTU holding party flags and banners participated in the rally in huge number. They also submitted memorandum to the Governor SC Jamir regarding the issue.

Outcome on the success of the two-day strike by all central trade unions on February 20 and 21, 2013, the Prime Minister constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to discuss and settle the 10-point charter of demands jointly formulated by all the central trade unions in the country.

The first meeting between the central unions and the GoM was held on May 22, 2013 where the unions had demanded concrete response to their issues like minimum wage not less than of Rs 10,000, universal social security cover for all workers, assured pension for the entire working population, same wage and benefits for contract workers as regular workers for same and similar work, strict implementation of Labour Laws, concrete measures to contain price rise and employment generation, stoppage of disinvestment in central and State PSUs, removal of all ceilings on payment and eligibility of bonus, provident fund and compulsory registration of trade unions within a period of 45 days.

Despite categorical announcement by the Prime Minister in the 45th Indian Labour Conference about the justice of the demands and that many of them are under advanced stage of consideration, the GoM, instead of making any concrete response sought more time to study our demands and thus the meeting ended without any concrete result, rued the protestors.

The protestors urge the Prime Minister to ensure that the long pending demands are sorted out through dialogue between the Government and the trade unions.

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